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  5. CouchDB vs PostgreSQL vs ToroDB

CouchDB vs PostgreSQL vs ToroDB

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Overview

PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Stacks103.2K
Followers83.9K
Votes3.6K
GitHub Stars19.0K
Forks5.2K
CouchDB
CouchDB
Stacks530
Followers584
Votes139
GitHub Stars6.7K
Forks1.1K
ToroDB
ToroDB
Stacks0
Followers7
Votes0
GitHub Stars12
Forks2

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Detailed Comparison

PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
CouchDB
CouchDB
ToroDB
ToroDB

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.

Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce indexes, and regular HTTP for its API. CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents and query your indexes with your web browser, via HTTP. Index, combine, and transform your documents with JavaScript.

ToroDB is an open source, document-oriented, JSON database that runs on top of PostgreSQL, providing storage and I/O savings and ACID semantics. ToroDB is MongoDB-compatible, so you can use Mongo clients to connect to it.

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Terrific single-node database; Clustered database ; HTTP/JSON; Offline first data sync
Document-oriented (JSON); Store data reliabily and durably with PostgreSQL; Use MongoDB clients to connect to it; High concurrency and I/O and storage savings; ACID semantics: atomic batch insertions; ACID semantics: queries run fully isolated;Open source, AGPLv3 licensed
Statistics
GitHub Stars
19.0K
GitHub Stars
6.7K
GitHub Stars
12
GitHub Forks
5.2K
GitHub Forks
1.1K
GitHub Forks
2
Stacks
103.2K
Stacks
530
Stacks
0
Followers
83.9K
Followers
584
Followers
7
Votes
3.6K
Votes
139
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 765
    Relational database
  • 511
    High availability
  • 439
    Enterprise class database
  • 383
    Sql
  • 304
    Sql + nosql
Cons
  • 10
    Table/index bloatings
Pros
  • 43
    JSON
  • 30
    Open source
  • 18
    Highly available
  • 12
    Partition tolerant
  • 11
    Eventual consistency
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What are some alternatives to PostgreSQL, CouchDB, ToroDB?

MongoDB

MongoDB

MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.

MySQL

MySQL

The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft® SQL Server is a database management and analysis system for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.

SQLite

SQLite

SQLite is an embedded SQL database engine. Unlike most other SQL databases, SQLite does not have a separate server process. SQLite reads and writes directly to ordinary disk files. A complete SQL database with multiple tables, indices, triggers, and views, is contained in a single disk file.

Cassandra

Cassandra

Partitioning means that Cassandra can distribute your data across multiple machines in an application-transparent matter. Cassandra will automatically repartition as machines are added and removed from the cluster. Row store means that like relational databases, Cassandra organizes data by rows and columns. The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a close relative of SQL.

Memcached

Memcached

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.

MariaDB

MariaDB

Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. MariaDB is designed as a drop-in replacement of MySQL(R) with more features, new storage engines, fewer bugs, and better performance.

RethinkDB

RethinkDB

RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn.

ArangoDB

ArangoDB

A distributed free and open-source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.

InfluxDB

InfluxDB

InfluxDB is a scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics. It has a built-in HTTP API so you don't have to write any server side code to get up and running. InfluxDB is designed to be scalable, simple to install and manage, and fast to get data in and out.

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